Improvement in collar-pads



.M. P. SAUER.

Collar-Pad.

I No. 198,048. Patented Dec.'11, 1877 unussszs: I NV: 103: @QW /Y N-PETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAFNER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTIN F. SAUER, OF SOMONAUK, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COLLAR-PADS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,048, dated December11, 1877 application filed I October 19, 1877.

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The object of this invention is to furnish an improved pad toprevent'the top of the necks of horses and mules from being made sore bythe collar, and to enable them to heal, when sore, while the animal iskept at work, and which shall be simple in construction and convenientand effective in use.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawing,and then pointed out in claim.

A A are two elliptical pads connected by a strap, B, and provided withloops (1 O. The pads A A fit on the upper part of the horses neck, whilethe strap B rises slightly above the neck, leaving the crown or upperportion of the neck Impressed and out of contact with pads or straps.The collar passes around the outer sides of pads and through the loopsCO.

I- am aware that it is not new, broadly, to use a tree with pads appliedthereto in such manner'as to leave a clear space between the same andthe neck of the animal; but

What I claim as new, and of my invention, Is-

The two pads A A, connected by flexible strap B, and made independent ofand applicable to any collar, as shown and described.

MARTIN FRIEDRICH BAUER.

Witnesses THEODORE Boos, NIKOLAs DIETERICH.

